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Google does not implement regex search support because they said somewhere that the data storage needed for the index would be huge. And since regex search is used only by a small subset of users, it is not worth the effort.


This does not do what you think it does. It takes a regular expression and an input and applies that regular expression to that input. It doesn't search the web using the regex.


IIRC "security" plays important role here too, because using regexps you can much easier find sensitive data, or to be precise: context (neighborhood) of sensitive data.


I would guess that small subset of users is a big subset of users that use DDG.


More likely, regex search has the power only allowed in the paid Google Search API. And Google knows the value of its search data.


actually they can support only for some computer-related domains such as stackoverflow etc.




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